Top 10 Ranked Hollywood Movies of 2022, According to IMDb

The Best Hollywood Movies of 2022, According to IMDb: Initially a fan-operated database, IMDb has become one of the most popular and respected online databases of information related to films and television series. Despite the problem with the IMDb ranking system, it’s still a good measure of how the audience and the critics like the film and whether they should spend time watching it.

Here we have condensed the top-ranking IMDb films of the year 2022 so that you know if your favorite film is on the list, and if not, you can view the ones that have wowed audiences in the past year. This top ten list has everything from fan-favorite blockbusters to arthouse indie films, from CGI spectacles to sensitive dramas. Read the list of the top Hollywood movies of 2022, according to IMDb, for recommendations for all moods and entertainment needs.

1) Top Gun: Maverick

Stars: 8.4, Metascore: 78

Topping the list is the Maverick, none other than the immensely popular sequel headed by Tom Cruise in perfect form. Thirty-six years after the release of Top Gun, the sequel to the massively successful film still managed to soar high and take our breaths away. The film sees Tom Cruise reprise his character of Maverick from the previous film, Maverick, now a test pilot and a flight instructor, retains his bravado, flimsy regard for rules, and charming smile. But he has to face his past after 30 years of graduation while training a group of new Top Gun recruits.

The film does justice to its predecessor with its mind-boggling aerial stunts, stylish narrative, catchy dialogues, and a generous dose of Tom Cruise superstardom that refuses to fade. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the film possesses a stellar cast of Val Kilmer, Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, and Ed Harris, along with Jennifer Connelly, who plays Maverick’s love interest.

The film has the qualities of an old-school Hollywood blockbuster with a modern core that shines brilliantly with sheer entertainment value. The film fascinated the audiences, and Tom Cruise charmed his way into the hearts of the audiences with his aviator glasses and fancy stunts, making the film earn close to $1.5 billion globally.

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2) Everything Everywhere All at Once

Stars: 8.1, Metascore: 81

Everything Everywhere All at Once is a film we didn’t know we wanted but were blessed with courtesy of the Daniels: the directors’ Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. This genre-bending absurdist comedy-drama film wowed the audience with the sheer brilliance of narrative storytelling and intelligent use of genre tropes oscillating between multiple genres like absurdist comedy, martial arts, science fiction, fantasy, and animation, wowed the audience.

Headed by Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn, a Chinese American immigrant who is discontent with her life and has a tense relationship with her daughter, the film follows the surreal adventures of Evelyn after she gains the sudden ability to travel between parallel universes. The film is a crazy and entertaining merry-go-round of Evelyn traveling in the multiverse to save it from evil.

Everything Everywhere All at Once features brilliant performances by its cast, including Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, and Jamie Lee Curtis, among others. The film’s genius takes on the concept of the multiverse and the significance of one’s actions. Moreover, it won critical and commercial acclaim and remains a front-runner in the 2023 Award season. It recently graced with two Golden Globe Awards to Michelle Yeoh for Best Actress and Ke Huy Quan for Best Supporting Actor. The film has earned over $103 million globally, becoming A24’s first film to cross the $100 million mark.

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3) The Whale

Stars: 8.1, Metascore: 60

The Whale is an indie niche film directed by Darren Aronofsky starring Brendan Fraser in a tour de force performance with critics and audiences alike showering praises at him. The film received a six-minute standing ovation at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, ranks third on the IMDb list, and seems like a front-runner in the award season. Written by Samuel D. Hunter and based on his 2012 play of the same name, the film details the life of a morbidly obese, manic-depressive, and reclusive English Professor, Charlie, who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter after a near-death episode.

Apart from the sensitive and heart-breaking performance by Oscar-nominated Brendan Fraser, the film features Sadie Sink as Charlie’s daughter, Hong Chau as his nurse and caretaker, Samantha Morton as his ex-wife, and an evangelist missionary. Moreover, this film draws parallels with Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick and explores themes of loneliness, self-loathing, friendship, and emotional truth. The art-house film earned $10 million gross domestically in the US recently, a significant milestone for an indie film.

4) Avatar: The Way of Water

Stars: 7.9, Metascore: 67

The fans who have patiently awaited another visit to the enchanting land of Pandora with its unique flora and fauna finally got their wish thirteen years after the release of Avatar, the highest-earning film of all time by James Cameron. It isn’t ever easy to be a sequel, and to be one for such a trend-setting film was indeed a task.

Still, Avatar: The Way of Water proved itself wholly deserving by enchanting the viewers yet again. It is currently on the way to breaking records, having already managed to become the seventh highest-grossing film of all time in just a month. And it has become the highest-grossing Hollywood movie of 2022, having $2,294,153,625 in its kitty at the time of writing the article.

This CGI spectacle by James Cameron stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, and Stephen Lang, among others. It carries forward the story of slender blue aliens on a quest to save their home planet from humans. Furthermore, the film continues this adventure and explores new areas of the fascinating planet, focusing on the sea. Avatar: The Way of Water carries forward the legacy of its predecessor with strong CGI-based worldbuilding, innovative action sequences, and a heartfelt narrative that explores themes of colonization, nature, and family. The film wowed the audiences and currently ranks fourth on this IMDb list.

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5) The Banshees of Inisherin

Stars: 7.9, Metascore: 87

The Banshees of Inisherin is a tragicomedy film with dark undertones written and directed by Martin McDonagh, who is known for his absurdist black humor. The film reunites the two actors Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson from his cinematic directorial debut film In Bruges. Set in an idyllic Irish village in the year 1923, the film is about the end of a friendship between dairy farmer Pádraic Súilleabháin and folk musician Colm Doherty when Colm suddenly severs all ties with Pádraic to focus on his art and doing something creative over spending time with Pádraic.

The film is hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure, with the slow idyllic pace broken by scenes of sudden cruelty and violence. Moreover, the two lead actors share an onscreen chemistry that is full of humor and pathos, focusing on themes of friendship, art, loneliness, depression, and an innate inability to comprehend the often-inexplicable situations in life. The film managed to awe the audience through sheer absurdist hilarity and cruelty that cut to the bone. The Banshees of Inisherin unfolds like a poetic, dark fable set in a seemingly picaresque and quaint village is a critic favorite appearing on various year-end lists, and is a front-runner in the award season; it ranks fifth on this list.

6) Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

Stars: 7.8, Metascore: 75

The sixth film on the list is Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation’s adventure action-comedy animated film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The sequel to Puss in Boots (2011) set in the ‘Shrek’ universe, this animated film has a stellar cast of actors in voice roles, with Antonio Banderas reprising his role of voicing the titular Puss in Boots, the sword-wielding Spanish cat; Salma Hayek, Harvey Guillen, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman among others are also cast in significant roles. The film features Puss on his latest adventure years after the last film. Puss is down to the last of his nine lives and is hiding from the Big Bad Wolf. Moreover, he is on a quest to get to a shooting star that will grant him more lives.

The film was a hit among children and adults alike and proved to be a hero for DreamWorks animation. In true Shrek universe fashion, the film is immensely intertextual with the inclusion of Goldilocks and the three bear story into the cat on a quest narrative, and many favorite children’s fantasy and fairy tale characters make an appearance making the film a fun and immensely enjoyable experience for the adults as well. The film is getting well-deserved attention and appreciation in the award season as well by being nominated at various prestigious awards like the Golden Globes and the BAFTA.

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7) Aftersun

Stars: 7.8, Metascore: 95

Charlotte Wells makes her directorial debut with Aftersun, hailed as one of the best films of the year 2022. The film premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and is based on the themes of adulthood, childhood, memory, and family. Aftersun explores the sensitive relationship between a troubled father and his eleven-year-old daughter at the cusp of teenage, on holiday to a Turkish budget resort to celebrate his 31st birthday.

The film is set in the 1990s. Paul Mescal plays the Scottish, idealistic but disturbed father with sensitivity, and newcomer Frankie Corio plays his observant and curious daughter with charm. Unfolding like memory itself, this indie film is a testament to childhood memories and adult struggles. The film is a delicate exploration of a daughter-father relationship and the poignancy of childhood memories. Impressing the audiences with its slow, languid charm, the film’s presence is felt in all significant Awards. Therefore, it is unsurprising that it holds the seventh position on this IMDb list.

8) The Batman

Stars: 7.8, Metascore: 72

Starring Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader, this is the Batman series reboot by DC films and Warner Bros. directed by Matt Reeves. Batman is one of the most famous comic book superheroes with multiple reincarnations cinematically as filmmakers continue to be fascinated by the complex and troubled superhero with traumatic origins. The audiences never knew that they needed a goth Batman, but that is what the film delivers, and with such panache. Actually, it’s not a run-of-the-mill superhero adventure but a dark and gritty noir-ish crime thriller drama.

The film impressed the audiences with its novelty and performances bringing back many of Batman’s old nemeses under one roof in the dark deranged Gotham. Paul Dano appears as the Riddler, the film’s main antagonist, along with John Turturro as Carmine Falcone and Colin Farrell as the Penguin; Zoë Kravitz appears as Selena Kyle or the Catwoman. Audiences received the film well for its storytelling and visuality, differentiating it from the formulaic CGI fest of the current trend of superhero films. The film ranks eighth on the IMDb list, and The Batman was the most trending movie of 2022, just behind Spider-man: No Way Home.

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9) All Quiet on the Western Front

Stars: 7.8, Metascore: 76

Based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front is an epic anti-war film. Edward Berger directs this German-language film. It describes the horrors and tragedy of war through the character of Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who hoped to become a hero but is shocked and disillusioned by the bloodbath, gore and cruelty only to question the necessity of war and do his best to survive.

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In the film, Paul questions the naivety of people supporting the war by stating, “You still think it’s beautiful and sweet to die for your country, don’t you?” says Paul. “The first bombardment taught us better.” This possibly best describes the film’s sentiment, humane exploration of people in the barracks and frontlines fighting a war and killing the opponent to survive until the war is called off. The gory, dark, and at the same time, the compellingly sensitive film does justice to its subject matter. The film was released on Netflix after a premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and a select theatrical release. Besides, the highly appreciated anti-war drama is Germany’s official entry for the Oscars and holds the ninth position on this IMDb list.

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10) Argentina, 1985

Stars: 7.7, Metascore: 78

Based on the 1985 Trial of the Juntas, Argentina, 1985 is an Argentine historical drama film directed by Santiago Mitre. The film ranks 10th on this IMDb list and has recently won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language film. The film is the cinematic dramatization of the prosecution of the heads of Argentina’s last civil-military dictatorship, one of the most-cruel dictatorships in the history of the country. A group of young people prosecuted nine top military officials for their violent human rights abuses. Actors Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani play the role of Julio César Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo, respectively, the two lawyers at the head of the prosecution, with great aplomb and sensitivity. Eventually, the film is a powerful and moving watch contemplating memory, truth, and justice in a world of human rights violations and threats to freedom and equality.

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